Volusia and Flagler counties in Florida will receive discounts from Medicaid to settle its debt, according to The Daytona Beach News-Journal.
ASC Coding, Billing & Collections
How are today's accountable care organizations led and reimbursed? How many lives do they cover and what are the most common types of patient populations? What challenges do they face, and how long does it take, on average, to create…
Camille Van Vurst, RN, MBA, vice president of accountable care strategic advisory services at TriZetto Group, and Thomas Lundquist, MD, vice president of performance measures at BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee, discuss the bundled payment program that was recently announced for…
Electronic health record vendor Allscripts struck up a deal with Microsoft and is expanding the types of outside applications that can be integrated with its EHR software, according to Information Week Healthcare.
Miami, Fla.-based Jackson Health System executives are exploring outsourcing both billing and collections services and emergency room physicians, according to the Miami Herald.
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Four main obstacles exist for auditing electronic health records, according to Physicians Practice.
Aetna is advising certain recipients not to pay their hospital bills from Meadowlands Hospital Medical Center in Secaucus, N.J., according to NorthJersey.com.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services posted an interactive Provider Compliance Group Interactive Map to help providers determine state-specific organizations which provide Medicare auditing and compliance services, according to AAPC. The map includes contact information, email and websites for…
Out-of-network reimbursement is one of the most discussed issues in the ASC industry, as payors continue to pressure physicians to take cases to in-network centers. The strategy, which used to be a profit-driver in successful centers, is disappearing in some…
Nashville, Tenn.-based Healthcare giant HCA managed to thrive during the economic recession due to its successful financial model, which included aggressive billing, according to The New York Times.